Shirt and detachable cuff therefor.



IE. A. HOLST.

SHIRT AND DETAGHABLE CUFF THEREFOR.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA UG. 111111 9. 1, OO'7,570. Patented 001. 31, 1911.

Witnesses. Inventor.-

WWW w FREDRIK ANTON HOLST, OF CHRISTIANIA, NORWAY.

SHIRT AND DETACI-IABLE CUFF THEREFOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

Application filed August 12, 1909. Serial No. 512,555.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDRIK ANTON HOLST, a subject of the King of Norway, residing at Christiania, Norway, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts and Detachable Cuffs Therefor; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shirts and detachable cuffs therefor, and has for its object to provide means whereby cuffs may be secured detachably to a shirt sleeve and still have the appearance of being made with the shirt. Further objects of the invention are to conceal the wristbands so that they do not touch the wearer and become soiled, and to reduce the number of folds heretofore incident to connections of this character.

The objects of the invention are secured by attaching a narrow band to the sleeve along the center line of the outside face of the band, and in forming a pocket, either in the center of the cuff or adjacent one edge thereof, between the plies of material of which the cuff is made.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figures 1, 2, 3 and 7 show the application of the invention to a non-reversible cuif, and Figs. 4:, 5, and 6 show the invention applied to a reversible cuff. Fig. 1, is a top view of a nonreversible cuff embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an outside view of the band with a portion of a shirt sleeve sewed thereon according to my invention. Fig. 3 is an end view of a non-reversible cufi' attached to a band. Fig. 4 is a top view of a reversible detachable cuff with the pocket arranged along its center. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a reversible cuff attached to the shirt sleeve. Fig. 6 is an edge view showing the band in Fig. 2 attached to the cuif shown in Fig. 4:, and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a non-reversible cuff attached to a sleeve.

In the reversible end A, illustrated in Figs. 4 to 6, a pocket is formed midway between the longitudinal edges of the cufi between the bottom and top plies of the material, and an opening to the pocket is formed in one or more plies, which constitute one half the thickness of the cuff. The opening is formed by making one or more of the plies forming half the thickness of the cuff in sections or halves I, K, and these halves are spaced apart on the other plies so as to leave a space forming an opening as a between the parallel adjacent inner edge of the sections. Parallel to said edges and at a suitable distance therefrom, rows of stitches S, S, are provided to form flaps C, C, for

the pocket. One end of the pocket is preferably left open by not sewing the flaps C, C, at one end, as indicated at D, while the other end is preferably closed by sewing down the flaps as indicated at E. The distance between the two rows of stitches S, S is preferably made about half an inch, and the band B is of a width to insure an easy fit of the band in the pocket, but said distance may, of course, be varied at will. The slot between the tabs or flaps G forming the opening a into which the shirt sleeve F enters, is preferably made as narrow as possible without the tabs or flaps overlapping each other. The pocket must be arranged in the top or outside face of the end, to enable the inner edge of the latter to be concealed under the shirt sleeve, which arrangement in combination with the arrangement of the sleeve band is adapted to give the cuff the appearance of being permanently fixed.

The sleeve F, to which a cuff as above de scribed is to be attached, is provided with a narrow band B and said band is connected to the edge of the sleeve by sewing the edge to the center of the band as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 6.

Instead of arranging the pocket along the center of the cuff, it may be placed near the inner edge of the same by forming the plies, which constitute the outside and one half the thickness of the cuff, of different widths, in which case the cufi A, Figs. 1, 3, and 7 will be non-reversible.

I claim In a detachable shirt cuff connection, the combination with a shirt sleeve; of a narrow band attached to the sleeve between the longitudinal edges of the band on the outside face thereof, and a cuff having a portion of my invention, I have signed my name in its plies made 1n two sections spaced apart presence of two subserlblng Witnesses. at them lnner edges and sewed onto the other plies by rows of stitches adj aeent said edges FREDRIK ANTON HOLST' and parallel thereto, thereby forming a Witnesses: slotted pocket in the outside face of the cuff. JoI-IN OALR,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as AUG. OLSEN.

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